Basilosaurus

Quality:

Basilosaurus - extinct genus of cetaceans (Cetacea). This taxon is the 2220^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of taxon and the 740^th most popular taxon in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Basilosaurus” in Simple English Wikipedia has 24.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 6 references and 1 sections.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Simple English) language version.

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

The 740^th most popular in taxon in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 2220^th most popular in taxon.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 8263^rd most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Basilosaurus”, its content was written by 11 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1076 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Basilosaurus is on the 740^th place in local ranking of taxon in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 2220^th place in global ranking of taxon in all the time.

The article is cited 9 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 880 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #214 in July 2019
• Global: #3517 in July 2019

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #5107 in June 2018
• Global: #28056 in July 2017

There are 37 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Basilosaurus		91.776
2	Italian (it) Basilosaurus		72.1437
3	Czech (cs) Basilosaurus		63.0651
4	Basque (eu) Basilosaurus		58.1752
5	Catalan (ca) Basilosaure		57.8798
6	Spanish (es) Basilosaurus		47.9924
7	Chinese (zh) 龍王鯨		47.2193
8	Turkish (tr) Basilosaurus		43.5563
9	Slovenian (sl) Basilosaurus		36.4542
10	Tamil (ta) பாசிலோசாரசு		30.907

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Basilosaurus		2 209 539
2	Russian (ru) Базилозавры		539 913
3	Japanese (ja) バシロサウルス		371 487
4	Spanish (es) Basilosaurus		328 924
5	German (de) Basilosaurus		315 400
6	French (fr) Basilosaurus		170 630
7	Chinese (zh) 龍王鯨		165 578
8	Italian (it) Basilosaurus		145 843
9	Polish (pl) Bazylozaur		83 941
10	Portuguese (pt) Basilosaurus		55 762

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Basilosaurus		11 070
2	Russian (ru) Базилозавры		1 854
3	Japanese (ja) バシロサウルス		1 438
4	German (de) Basilosaurus		947
5	Spanish (es) Basilosaurus		916
6	Simple English (simple) Basilosaurus		811
7	Chinese (zh) 龍王鯨		762
8	Italian (it) Basilosaurus		648
9	French (fr) Basilosaurus		631
10	Portuguese (pt) Basilosaurus		327

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Basilosaurus		319
2	German (de) Basilosaurus		83
3	French (fr) Basilosaurus		81
4	Italian (it) Basilosaurus		66
5	Russian (ru) Базилозавры		59
6	Dutch (nl) Basilosaurus		55
7	Spanish (es) Basilosaurus		42
8	Japanese (ja) バシロサウルス		37
9	Catalan (ca) Basilosaure		25
10	Norwegian (no) Basilosaurus		25

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Basilosaurus		2
2	Japanese (ja) バシロサウルス		1
3	Korean (ko) 바실로사우루스		1
4	Arabic (ar) باسيلوصور		0
5	Bulgarian (bg) Базилозаври		0
6	Catalan (ca) Basilosaure		0
7	Czech (cs) Basilosaurus		0
8	German (de) Basilosaurus		0
9	Spanish (es) Basilosaurus		0
10	Basque (eu) Basilosaurus		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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